ABSTRACT
If your answer to all the questions is yes, read no further and go out and play golf, go fishing, or drink beer (or all three). If any answers are no, please read on (see Figure 1.1).
This is our starting point in the discussion of availability, its theory, design, practice, and management, and I hope you and your organization will benefit from it. The management disciplines are the ones I found missing from most literature on high availability (HA) I’ve seen. Unmanaged technology can be like a loose cannon on a rolling ship-dangerous.
